sometimes the hard part is making the first mark on a blank page

domestic longhair. remembers the outside world but only sometimes desires to return to it.
sometimes the hard part is making the first mark on a blank page
I have this problem when I'm programming. Weirdly, the thing that helps me is to just start writing random for loop and/or function structures with nothing in them. Then I just start adding code in to actually do what I want and it feels way easier since I've technically already started.